Remember as children how we simply loved a game of tongue twisters? Every time somebody used to mix up the words, all of us rolled into giggles and chuckles in case our clumsy friend was a bit sensitive. A tongue twister is a compilation of words that is constructed to be tough to be pronounced properly and is generally in a rhyme or sing-a-song kind of manner. Most of these tongue twisters are designed to be humors and are entertaining, as the one who recites is doomed to mispronounce it. It amuses the listeners, which is primarily why it is a hit amongst children. Children like to play the game of tongue twisters in their parties. They seem uncontrollably excited when their friends make silly mistakes by wrongly pronouncing the words, creating a false but funny meaning. Therefore, the next time your children ask for you to arrange a party or a picnic or a pajama party for them, then along with good food and innocent chitter-chatter, you can introduce a game of tongue twisters for them. This is certainly going to appeal to children of all ages, as there are different types of tongue twisters or you can say tongue twisters with different levels of difficulty, for children of all ages. This will keep the children happily busy and you can also relax and leave them to it. Or better still, you too can get involved in the slippery-sloppy game of tongue twisters and spend some quality time with your children; do not hesitate to become a child with them and have loads of fun. If you want some examples of English tongue twisters then here we are at your service. In this article we have put together a fine collection of many fun tongue twisters to keep you and your children entertained.
English Tongue Twisters
- A canner can can anything that he can,
But a canner can't can a can, can he?
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
- Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish,
but if you wish the wish the witch wishes
I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
- There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
- Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter
It's the peanut-butter picky people pick.
- One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.
- How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.
- Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said "this butter's bitter! But a bit
of better butter will but make my butter better" So she bought some better
butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so it was
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
- She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.
For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore
Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.
- Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott's Schnapps stopped Schwab's watch.
- A Proper Copper Coffee Pot.
Betty bopper's battering batton made bertie bopper bite her.
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
Cecily thought Sicily less thistly than Thessaly.
Irish Wristwatch, Swiss Wristwatch.
Peggy Babcock.
The bog above Bob Gorman's bog.
Pleasant mother pheasant plucker.
Red Leather, Yellow Leather.
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry.
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper.
Smiley shlug with Shloer.
Mad Man.
Toy Boat
Unique New York.
- How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
- Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.
- I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
- To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
- Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
One-Line Tongue Twisters
- Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead.
- The black bloke's back brake block broke.
- Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
- I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit.
- Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
- The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.
- She sells sea shells on the sea shore. The shells she sells are sea shells, I'm sure.
- I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
- Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
- How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
- The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
- Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
- Santa's Short Suit Shrunk
- Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
- Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins
- A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!